Lomu draws crowd but another All Black takes the limelight

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NEARLY 12,000 people were drawn to the Arms Park on Saturday, the biggest home crowd to see the Blues play, for the home debut of Jonah Lomu, the former All Black wing and talisman. After his recovery from a life-threatening kidney illness, to anticipate that he should burst on the scene as of yore is, at this stage, too much to expect. In contrast to the mayhem he once caused, this game was but a gentle exercise for him.

If the crowd were hoping for the familiar trademarks of the charging Lomu dispatching would-be tacklers like flotsam and jetsam, they